Improvement in pumps



CHARLES WILSON.

Pumps. v Patented May 28,1872.

` Inventum f ER WI/LW 'having the check-valve.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES WILSON, CF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUMPS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,284, dated May 28, 1872.

linvention consists in securing the pump within an air-tight case, which is placed above the well, and connected therewith by a drop-pipe This will permit the application of direct power to the elevated pump and still cause it to draw direct from water conta-ined within the surrounding reservoir and drawn from the well into the saine.

A in the drawing represents a pump of suitable construction and arrangement, suspended or supported within a reservoir, B, of cylindrical or other shape. This reservoir is rmly secured upon the coverC of the well D. A

pipe, E, extends from the cover C down to the lower part of the well into the water contained therein, and is provided with a check-valve, a. The reservoir B is made of metal, glass, or other material so as to be practically airtight.

As the pump is worked partial vacuum will first be created within the reservoir and water drawn, into the same from the well until it has risen to the bottom of the pump. yThe water is then drawn into the .pump and discharged in regular streams from its spout.

In the reservoir the water can never rise higher than the bottom of the pump, allowing the latter to draw its supply from the liquid with which it is in contact as though it was iinmersed therein; yet the pump does not share the disadvantages of submerged pumps, such as diiiiculty of access, imparting abad taste set forth.

CHARLES WILSON. Witnesses:

CHAs. M. Fnrr'rs, J Amis A. Mmmm. 

